Recent research has expanded on the idea that the trees around us are far more complex than they appear.  Hidden beneath bark ...

Ancient mammoth remains preserved microbial DNA over a million years old. The study reveals long-term host-microbe ...

According to a new study by Yale researchers published in Nature, trees host diverse and unique microbial communities, ...

Microbial communities—vast ecosystems teeming with millions of different cells from different species—play a fundamental role in life on Earth, from producing oxygen to aiding digestion. Despite their ...

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help ...

Microbes have long been engaged in warfare; these cells have to find a place to survive and thrive, and collect enough nutrients to function and grow... | Microbiology ...

Microbial crude protein makes up a major share of the cow's metabolizable protein. But predictions aren't perfect, so what's ...

Xu Zhang, Ph.D., has joined the Texas A&M Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology as an assistant professor.

They are the oldest forms of life, and by sheer quantity, they dominate the planet. But how bacteria and archaea interact with each other and their environment is essentially unknown. "It's really ...

There's a new branch on the tree of life and it's made up of predators that nibble their prey to death. These microbial predators fall into two groups, one of which researchers have dubbed 'nibblerids ...

There is so much we don't know about microbes, even while these organisms are the most numerous on the planet. A recent study called our understanding of microbial life 'profoundly ignorant,' and ...